Chapter Summaries

Long Xiao fought the Snake God, unleashing his Dragon God Sacred Body and powerful techniques against her, but her Heavenly-Tier attack pierced his chest. As he healed, the Snake God launched a surprise attack from beneath the desert.

• Long Xiao activated his Dragon God Sacred Body, raised his strength to Three-Star Dou Zun, and used Dragon God Seal against the Snake God’s rainbow beam.
• The Snake God caught Long Xiao’s fist, then gathered energy for a Heavenly-Tier Dou Technique as he retreated from its locked-on attack.
• Long Xiao countered with Dragon God Art: Heaven-and-Earth Annihilation, and the collision wounded both fighters and pierced a hole through his chest.
• Long Xiao swallowed Eighth-Tier Pills and used restorative liquids and his Dragon God Sacred Body to heal, while the Snake God advanced through his Golden Dragon Heaven-Burning Flame.
• Long Xiao used Extinction Immortal Eye to locate the Snake God, but a seven-colored snake tail burst from beneath the desert and struck toward him.

Long Xiao fought the Snake God to stop her from forcing Medusa onto the altar, then unleashed his bloodline power and killed her with the Dao-Slaying Sword. The Snake-People Tribe learned that Long Xiao had already cured them of the poison, and Medusa and her commanders were left shaken by his strength.

• The Snake God overwhelmed Long Xiao and threatened to kill him unless Medusa stepped onto the altar.
• Medusa agreed to go to the altar, but Long Xiao rose and activated the Heaven Clan's Clan Mark, summoning the power of heaven and earth to bind the Snake God.
• The Snake God revealed that she had poisoned the Snake-People Tribe, but Long Xiao said he had already cured them with Immortal Wine he had shared at the banquet.
• The Snake God transformed into a seven-colored python and struggled against Long Xiao's restraints, while the backlash from invoking the laws of heaven and earth grew stronger.
• Long Xiao summoned the Dao-Slaying Sword and killed the Snake God, devastating the surrounding desert.
• Medusa, Mo Bass, Yue Mei, and the other commanders reacted to Long Xiao's power and realized how far beyond them he was.

Medusa captured the High Priest after Long Xiao defeated the threat to the Snake-People Tribe, but Long Xiao collapsed from soul exhaustion and was taken to Medusa's chambers. Elsewhere, Bai Ling'er and Gu Xun'er settled into Jia Nan Academy while their protectors investigated their origins and searched for news of Long Xiao.

• Medusa ordered the High Priest and the Priest Lineage seized, then found Long Xiao unconscious and carried him to her chambers to recover.
• Medusa stayed beside Long Xiao, kissed his forehead, and vowed to do whatever it took to wake him.
• In Stone Desert City, Xiao Huohuo asked Elder Hai about the lingering sandstorm while Yao Lao kept quiet about the terrifying power he had sensed.
• At Jia Nan Academy, Bai Ling'er and Gu Xun'er spoke about their backgrounds and worried about the men they missed.
• Ling Ying told Gu Xun'er that he could find no trace of Bai Ling'er's origins, and Gu Xun'er sent him to protect Xiao Huohuo in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xing Yue informed Bai Ling'er of Gu Xun'er's Gu Clan background and reported that Chu Yuxuan and Xia Yun Yun were at Wind Lightning Pavilion, but she had found no news of Long Xiao.

Medusa worried over Long Xiao’s unconsciousness until she remembered the jade bottle he had left with her and used its life-giving water to heal him. Long Xiao awakened, and after they shared a tender reunion, he persuaded Medusa to help him absorb the remaining energy.

• Medusa fretted over Long Xiao while Yue Mei reassured her and recalled that they could not open his Storage Ring.
• Medusa remembered Long Xiao’s jade bottle, opened it, and found a drop of water filled with the breath of life.
• Medusa fed the drop to Long Xiao, whose injuries healed as the life energy flowed through him.
• Long Xiao awakened, wiped Medusa’s tears, and embraced her as she denied crying.
• Long Xiao claimed the water’s energy was overwhelming him, and Medusa agreed to help him absorb it.

Long Xiao taught Medusa the Spirit-Conversion Art and gave her a Storage Ring full of cultivation resources. After discovering that a mysterious array diagram came from the Chu Yun Empire, he was summoned to Stone Desert City, where someone was shocked to see that he was still alive.

• Medusa asked Long Xiao why he could fight above his cultivation level, and he explained that he cultivated spiritual energy.
• Long Xiao gave Medusa the Spirit-Conversion Art after she kissed him and called him “husband,” then placed a Storage Ring filled with resources on her finger.
• Long Xiao recognized a pattern on Medusa’s old yellow paper as the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Quelling Grand Array and learned she had taken it from Bi Xieyan in the Chu Yun Empire.
• Long Xiao sensed someone summoning him, left Medusa to cultivate, and flew to sandstorm-struck Stone Desert City.
• Someone in Stone Desert City cried out in surprise that Long Xiao was still alive.

Long Xiao reunited with Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai, warned them that a terrifying force deep in the desert was beyond even a Dou Zong to investigate, and invited them to the Chu Yun Empire to meet Bi Xieyan. After revealing his Dou Zong-level strength, he set off with the stunned pair and gave them Supreme Windwalk Pills to speed their journey.

• Long Xiao appeared before Xiao Huohuo and slapped him, then met Elder Hai as Xiao Huohuo introduced the two.
• Long Xiao told Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai that a terrifying event in the desert was beyond their reach, even for a Dou Zong.
• Long Xiao invited Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai to accompany him to the Chu Yun Empire to find Bi Xieyan, a renowned poison expert.
• Long Xiao walked through the air, revealing that he was a Dou Zong and leaving Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai stunned.
• Long Xiao gave Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai bottles of Supreme Windwalk Pills, and Xiao Huohuo took one to increase his speed.

Long Xiao attacked the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect to find Bi Xieyan, destroying much of the sect and overwhelming its fighters. Just as Xie Shan was about to lead him to Bi Xieyan, the supreme elder appeared, and Xie Shan realized Bi Xieyan had reached Dou Zong.

• Long Xiao rejected Elder Hai’s suggestion to sneak into the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect and destroyed its main hall with a palm strike.
• Xie Shan, the sect master, confronted Long Xiao and claimed Bi Xieyan was in seclusion, while Long Xiao identified the sect’s poison formation.
• Long Xiao shattered the sect’s defenses, defeated Xie Shan, and slaughtered the attackers with a Golden Dragon phantom.
• Long Xiao forced Xie Shan to reveal Bi Xieyan’s location, but Bi Xieyan appeared before Xie Shan could lead the way.
• Xie Shan recognized that Bi Xieyan had broken through to Dou Zong and believed he could defeat Long Xiao.

Long Xiao forced Bi Xieyan to reveal where he had found the formation diagram, then left to investigate the mysterious mountain. After Bi Xieyan plotted to follow him, Long Xiao struck down Bi Xieyan and Xie Shan and gave their Storage Rings to Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai.

• Bi Xieyan recognized the formation diagram and asked Long Xiao how it was connected to Medusa, but Long Xiao demanded information about its origins.
• Bi Xieyan proposed they work together, and Long Xiao overwhelmed him with heavenly flames until he agreed to explain where he had found the diagram.
• Bi Xieyan told Long Xiao about a nearly indestructible mountain in a wild forest and revealed its location when Long Xiao pressed him.
• After Long Xiao left, Bi Xieyan secretly planned with Xie Shan to follow him, but Long Xiao overheard them and used soul power to kill Xie Shan and cripple Bi Xieyan.
• Long Xiao returned to Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai and gave them the Storage Rings taken from Bi Xieyan and Xie Shan.

Long Xiao took Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai to a hidden mountain, where he subdued a group of Soul Hall members blocking its entrance. He killed the Soul Envoys and bound Iron Protector with a Soul Seal, leaving the Four-Star Dou Zong as his subordinate.

• Long Xiao told Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai about a potential opportunity and led them to a mountain that resisted his soul probing.
• At the mountain's entrance, Iron Protector and five Soul Envoys failed to move the boulder blocking their way.
• Long Xiao attacked the Soul Hall group with his Nine Dragons Heaven-Binding Chains, binding them and suppressing their Dou Qi.
• Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai kicked the bound Iron Protector while Long Xiao burned the Soul Envoys to ashes.
• Long Xiao placed a Soul Seal on Iron Protector and released him, and Iron Protector rose and addressed Long Xiao as his master.

Long Xiao broke into a hidden mountain sanctuary and led Xiao Huohuo and the others inside, where a trap sealed them in. They found Xiao Yi Xian unconscious in a chamber filled with deadly poison, and Long Xiao recognized that her woeful poison body could be a powerful Dao physique.

• Long Xiao used the Golden Light Wandering Dragon Cauldron to smash open the mountain entrance, revealing a vast cavern lined with spirit stones.
• Long Xiao sent the Iron Protector ahead to check the passage, then led the group onward after he reported no danger.
• A boulder sealed the passage behind them, trapping the group inside the winding cave.
• Long Xiao opened a stone chamber, and purple poisonous mist forced the group back until Elder Hai and Long Xiao protected them.
• Xiao Huohuo recognized the sleeping woman in the chamber as Xiao Yi Xian and explained that she was his friend from the Jia Ma Empire.
• Long Xiao rejected the Iron Protector's grim view of Xiao Yi Xian's woeful poison body and judged it to be a powerful Dao physique.

Long Xiao saved Xiao Yi Xian from her poisoned state, and she explained how her Woeful Poison Body had killed the elderly couple who cared for her. The group followed her to a question-based test blocking the path onward, where Long Xiao solved the first riddle through a wordplay trick.

• Long Xiao used his Golden Dragon Heaven-Burning Flame to burn away the poisonous gas and wake Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Huohuo and Long Xiao that her Woeful Poison Body had erupted and killed the elderly couple who had sheltered her.
• Long Xiao promised Xiao Yi Xian he could resolve her Woeful Poison Body once they escaped, and she led the group toward the path onward.
• The group reached a stone door requiring them to answer three questions, and Xiao Huohuo tried to take the test.
• Long Xiao answered the first question, choosing the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python because its name was the longest.

Long Xiao and his companions passed the trial’s first two questions, then he smashed through a deliberately unanswerable third question. A golden soul attack struck as they entered the cave, and Long Xiao escaped with Xiao Yi Xian while Xiao Huohuo remained inside.

• Xiao Huohuo, Elder Hai, and Iron Protector proposed trick answers to the second question, but Long Xiao answered two and opened the way.
• Long Xiao shattered the stone door when the third question’s tangled relationship puzzle proved impossible to answer.
• Long Xiao explained that the third question was designed to provoke them, then led the group into the cave.
• A golden soul shock wave attacked the group; Yao Lao protected Xiao Huohuo while Long Xiao blocked the attack and carried Xiao Yi Xian outside.
• Long Xiao realized Xiao Huohuo had not escaped the cave.

Long Xiao met Evil Keyboard Immortal, the fallen patriarch of the Key Clan, who revealed how the Ancient God Clan’s betrayal let the Outer-Domain Evil Clan devastate the Primordial Star Domain. Evil Keyboard Immortal explained that he had perished fighting an Eighteen-Eyed Evil God and warned Long Xiao about a past invasion of the Great Thousand World.

• Long Xiao entered the cave to rescue Xiao Huohuo and was pulled into a chaotic space, where he met Evil Keyboard Immortal.
• Long Xiao used the Encyclopedia to learn about Evil Keyboard Immortal and the Key Clan, then discovered that the immortal knew his father, Long Jian.
• Evil Keyboard Immortal told Long Xiao that the Ancient God Clan had tricked him into staying in the Ancient God Realm while the Outer-Domain Evil Clan invaded the Primordial Star Domain.
• Evil Keyboard Immortal said he returned to find the Primordial Star Domain in ruins and was defeated by an Eighteen-Eyed Evil God and nearly ten seventeen-eyed evil gods.
• Evil Keyboard Immortal revealed that he used his Super Divine Artifact to create the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Quelling Grand Array and perished alongside the Eighteen-Eyed Evil God.
• Evil Keyboard Immortal warned Long Xiao that the Outer-Domain Evil Clan had also invaded the Great Thousand World, where someone surnamed Mu would eventually reach the Ruler Realm and stop Heavenly Evil God.

Long Xiao passed the Evil Keyboard Immortal’s legacy to Xiao Huohuo, who embraced a new path as the Keyboard Immortal’s successor. After demonstrating his bizarre insulting arts and testing his powers, Xiao Huohuo smashed the inherited keyboard, leaving his destiny changed from Flame Emperor to Keyboard Immortal.

• The Evil Keyboard Immortal chose Xiao Huohuo, the continent’s child of destiny, to inherit his legacy, and Long Xiao agreed to deliver it.
• Long Xiao summoned the Eternal Heaven and Earth Keyboard in the cave and presented it to Xiao Huohuo, who accepted it and entered cultivation.
• Xiao Huohuo emerged as the Keyboard Immortal’s successor with three supreme arts: the Great Insulting Technique, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stems Keys, and the One Hundred and Eight Insulting Laws.
• Xiao Huohuo used the Great Insulting Technique on Yao Lao, then tested his keyboard’s attacks against Long Xiao, who knocked him back.
• Xiao Huohuo smashed the Eternal Heaven and Earth Keyboard and declared he would wield a keyboard to become an immortal, while Yao Lao lamented his weapon and called them freaks.

Long Xiao helped Xiao Yi Xian control her Poison Body, forming a Poison Pill that let her control its power and advance to Dou Wang. Their moment of relief ended when a messenger announced that Monster had captured Xiao Huohuo.

• Long Xiao used a Space Talisman to transport the group from the cave to the mountaintop, then sent Xiao Huohuo, Elder Hai, and Iron Protector away.
• Xiao Yi Xian chose to control her Poison Body rather than remove it, and Long Xiao comforted her as she confessed how lonely and exhausted she felt.
• Long Xiao sealed the area, blindfolded himself, and used golden spiritual energy and talismans to gather Xiao Yi Xian's poison in her dantian.
• Xiao Yi Xian formed a controllable Poison Pill, broke through to Dou Wang, and saw her hair turn purple.
• Long Xiao gave Xiao Yi Xian Bodhi Saliva to cleanse her body, but a messenger arrived and reported that Monster had captured Xiao Huohuo.

Long Xiao went to a brothel to rescue Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai from Hua Qingcheng, the powerful and frighteningly unattractive sect master of the Desire Maiden Sect. Hua Qingcheng abandoned her captives when she heard that Long Xiao had arrived, and the chapter ended with her trying to charm him.

• Iron Protector told Long Xiao that Hua Qingcheng had defeated him and carried Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai away.
• Long Xiao agreed to rescue them after Xiao Yi Xian worried about their safety.
• Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai were tied up in Hua Qingcheng’s private room, where Xiao Huohuo tried to make Elder Hai go first.
• Hua Qingcheng left the captives when she heard that a handsome young gentleman had arrived downstairs.
• Hua Qingcheng approached Long Xiao, and he forced himself to greet her politely despite feeling disgusted.

Long Xiao rescued Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai from the Brothel while Hua Qingcheng pursued him and professed her love. He left Iron Protector behind as her “compensation,” and Hua Qingcheng claimed Iron Protector for herself.

• Xiao Yi Xian tried to shield Long Xiao from Hua Qingcheng, so Long Xiao kicked Hua Qingcheng away and went upstairs with Xiao Yi Xian to find Xiao Huohuo.
• Iron Protector tried to stop Hua Qingcheng from following Long Xiao, but she broke his chain and beat him.
• Long Xiao found Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai tied up in a room and freed them with golden fire.
• Xiao Huohuo learned that Xiao Yi Xian had gained control of her poison body and advanced to Dou Wang, while Long Xiao urged everyone to leave before Hua Qingcheng returned.
• Hua Qingcheng chased them into the room and clung to Long Xiao, so he transformed Iron Protector into a handsome man and handed him over as compensation.
• Hua Qingcheng claimed Iron Protector and kissed him as Long Xiao, Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Huohuo, and Elder Hai left.

Long Xiao parted ways with Xiao Huohuo, Elder Hai, and Xiao Yi Xian before returning to the Snake-People Tribe and reuniting with Medusa. The chapter ended after Long Xiao and Medusa cultivated together, with Medusa absorbing energy while he admitted defeat.

• Xiao Huohuo and Elder Hai left for the imperial capital to fulfill Xiao Huohuo's three-year agreement, while Xiao Yi Xian planned to return to Qingshan Town and cultivate.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained Xiao Huohuo's engagement dispute with Nalan Yanran, and Long Xiao gave her Soul Jade Slips before departing for the Tagor Desert.
• Long Xiao returned to the Snake-People Tribe and found its reconstruction nearly complete, then went to Medusa's bedchamber.
• Medusa questioned Long Xiao about his trip and the woman's scent on him, so Long Xiao claimed an Eight-Star Dou Zong had tried to claim him and asked Medusa to comfort him.
• Long Xiao offered Medusa a Dragon Yang Pill, and they cultivated together until Medusa entered cultivation and Long Xiao conceded defeat.

Gu Xiu reported that the Evil Keyboard Immortal's legacy was likely on the Dou* Continent, and Gu Tianshen ordered the Nine Nether Hells to take it over secretly. The Nine Nether Emperor assigned Gui You, Ying Mei, and Kuang Mo to infiltrate the plane and prepare an invasion without collapsing its weak barrier.

• Gu Xiu told Gu Tianshen that the Evil Keyboard Immortal's ruins were likely on the Dou* Continent, and Gu Tianshen ordered him to send the Nine Nether Hells there without alerting the Outer-Domain Evil Clan.
• Gu Xiu asked the Nine Nether Emperor to secretly bring the Dou* Continent under control, explaining that its weak barrier could withstand only peak Saint Realm power.
• The Nine Nether Emperor summoned Gui You, Ying Mei, and Kuang Mo and ordered their peoples to carry out the mission.
• Ying Mei proposed finding a breach and building a passage while Gui You's people gathered intelligence, then sending Kuang Mo's Saint Realm army once the passage was ready.
• Gui You, Ying Mei, and Kuang Mo agreed on their assignments and went their separate ways.

Long Xiao invited Medusa on a date, and the two left the Snake-People Tribe for the Magical Beast Mountain Range. The chapter left them surveying the range after Long Xiao sensed no nearby threat.

• Medusa told Long Xiao she had advanced to seven-star Dou Zong, while he remained at five-star Dou Zong.
• Long Xiao invited Medusa on a date, and she accepted after he formally asked her to join him.
• Yue Mei encountered Long Xiao and Medusa as they left, and Long Xiao gave her pills to help her advance to Dou Emperor.
• Medusa asked Long Xiao if he had taken a fancy to Yue Mei, and he assured her that he only saw her as a friend.
• Long Xiao and Medusa flew to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Long Xiao surveyed the area with his soul power and found no dangerous aura nearby.